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<h1 style="text-align: center">iTorrent</h1>
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<p>
iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes. It transforms
BitTorrent podcasts so that you can update them just like any other podcast in
iTunes. iTorrent also has the ability to smooth out the downloads for
non-BitTorrent podcasts as well, so that you do not get frequent timeouts in
iTunes when it updates multiple podcasts at once.
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Technical Details: iTorrent runs as an RSS proxy on your local machine and will
fetch enclosures from a BitTorrent network on behalf of iTunes. The BitTorrent
content will then be fed to iTunes via a standard HTTP connection.
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<h4 id="prerequisites">Prerequisites:</h4>
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For Windows users, the only requirement is that you have iTunes installed. For
Mac users, iTorrent requires OS X 10.3.9 or greater.
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<h4 id="current-release">Current Release:</h4>
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The current release of iTorrent is the "alpha-2" release, which means that it
still isn't pretty, but it is much easier to install and run. The alpha-2
release can be downloaded here:
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=163841&amp;package_id=185388&amp;release_id=415006">
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=163841&amp;package_id=185388&amp;release_id=415006</a>.
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<h4 id="install">Install:</h4>
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Download the zip file for your computer and extract it to any directory that you
choose. Windows users will see an <code>iTorrent.exe</code> program in the
<code>iTorrent-alpha-2</code> subdirectory. Mac users see an iTorrent
application in the <code>iTorrent-alpha-2</code> subdirectory.
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<h4 id="upgrade">Upgrading:</h4>
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If you have a previous alpha-1 version of iTorrent installed, you'll need to
copy the <code>data</code> directory from your alpha-1 directory to the
<code>iTorrent-alpha-2</code> subdirectory.
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<h4 id="use">Use:</h4>
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  Run the iTorrent program, which will bring up a terminal window. On Mac OS X,
	it will prompt you for an admin password the first time you run iTorrent.
	After iTorrent has fully initialized, it will display the following message in
	the terminal:<br />
  <pre>[INFO] Ready on http://localhost/</pre>
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<li>
  Subscribe to proxied URLs in iTunes. You only need to do this once for each
  podcast. A proxied URL is a podcast URL with "http://localhost/" prepended to
  the beginning. For example, say your podcast's URL is
  "http://podcast.org/torrents.rss". In iTunes, then, you would subscribe to
  this proxied URL:
  "<span style="color: blue">http://localhost/</span>http://podcast.org/torrents.rss".<br />
  <img src="images/subscribe-dialog.png" alt="Subscribe Dialog" />
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  That's it. iTorrent will take care of the rest. Just remember to start
  iTorrent before you update your podcasts in iTunes. If you have iTunes
  configured to update your podcasts automatically, make sure that iTorrent is
  running whenever iTunes is.
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<li>
  To stop iTorrent, simply close the terminal window.
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